Extant: 2 valid subspecies
Polyrhachis (Myrmhopla) hippomanes Smith, 1861b PDF: 43, pl. 1, fig. 21 (w.) INDONESIA (Sulawesi). Indomalaya. AntCat AntWiki HOLTaxonomic history
Wheeler & Wheeler, 1970b PDF: 649 (l.).Combination in Polyrhachis (Myrmhopla): Viehmeyer, 1916a PDF: 166.See also: Santschi, 1928g: 253.P. niger; capite thoraceque opacis; abdomine nitido; thorace spinis duabus longis acutis postice armato; squama spinis duabus longis curvatis armata.
Worker. Length 2 1 / 4 lines. Black, the head and thorax opake, and obscurely tinged with blue. Thorax rounded above, the anterior margin unarmed; the metathorax with two long divergent spines; the node of the peduncle with two similar spines, which are curved and extend over the base of the abdomen; the trochanters and the intermediate and posterior coxae pale rufo-testaceous; the legs elongate. The abdomen globose. (PL I. fig. 20.)
Hab. Celebes (Tondano).
Polyrhachis hippomanes is a species of ant in the subfamily Formicinae, found in Sri Lanka. Three subspecies are recognized. 2 subspecies were given full species status recently.
Polyrhachis hippomanes is a species of ant in the subfamily Formicinae, found in Sri Lanka. Three subspecies are recognized. 2 subspecies were given full species status recently.
